On 6/10/2011 10:52, Alain wrote:
> It also see a sectors, cylinders and heads count that don't have
> anything to do with the actual values.

Yep. That's what I said. Of course the drive knows which sectors are where. 
THe interfaces might not, and the OS can't see it, and that's exactly one 
reason why people still use mainframes where important information like this 
isn't hidden from the OS.

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